Is it vegan to hatch chicks?

[Willows Bend Farm]

This may be silly to ask but is it ok to be vegan and hatch chicks? I’ve been vegan for three years and before that I’ve hatched chicks before. I don’t eat their eggs my family do and i just love the other breeds. I’ve hatched polish bantams, Ayem cemanis, light Sussex’s and have some battery hens. Sorry if this is on the wrong thread. Edit: thank you everyone for the quick replies and the kindness with them! My mum laughed and said I was going to get slated for asking so I appreciate everyone’s kindness

In my opininion yes, but i feel as if this is pretty subjective. I know vegan people who eat our chicken eggs from our small homestead and are still vegan, but some may disagree. Though just hatching eggs is definitely vegan in my opinion and is such a wondefull experience! Wishing you luck, and welcome to the chicken comunity!

 

[Chicken poppy]

Absolutely. All we can do is our best. As for the absurdity of bickering and nitpicking over definitions... Dude. Stop. Please. Your reality, your perceptions, your experience, is not my own. What means one thing to one person, means something else entirely to another.
Please, BE KIND!!! To ourselves, animals, other humans...
Most of all, the idea of the "One Twue Way" in MANY walks of life, was debunked quite some time ago. If your "vegan" is not my "vegan", does it seriously matter? My reality, my feelings, emotions, likes and dislikes, all of that, it's my own. Anyhoo!
Stoic philosophy! It's got all the answers, lol. Well, a lot of them.

“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will—then your life will flow well.”
- Epictetus, Enchiridion

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

— Marcus Aurelius

As Beloved birds said, there is only one type of vegan. It would be quite dishonest to consider yourself vegan if your only partially there. If you eat fish but no other meat or dairy products, your simply not a vegan, your a pescatarian.

But i do agree in a way, people need to respect what others choose as a diet, lifestyle, etc. Im fine when people eat meat because truthfully, thats none of my business. For me to tell you thats wrong or cruel is my opinion which you didn’t ask for.
I have had people eat meat (chicken, for example) laugh and describe the texture. Knowing very well i own chickens and would never eat chicken meat. That i find quite disrespectful.

 

[Chicken poppy]

In my opininion yes, but i feel as if this is pretty subjective. I know vegan people who eat our chicken eggs from our small homestead and are still vegan, but some may disagree. Though just hatching eggs is definitely vegan in my opinion and is such a wondefull experience! Wishing you luck, and welcome to the chicken comunity!

That would not be vegan, thats vEGGan, as some people call it.

Vegan avoids any animal products at all, dairy, meat, honey, etc.

 

[BelovedBirds]

I have had people eat meat (chicken, for example) laugh and describe the texture. Knowing very well i own chickens and would never eat chicken meat. That i find quite disrespectful.

I agree, my family know how dear my ducks are to me, and yet I've received "jokes" about eating them, having them for Christmas etc which utterly disgusts me.

 

[BelovedBirds]

That would not be vegan, thats vEGGan, as some people call it.

Vegan avoids any animal products at all, dairy, meat, honey, etc.

I'm technically veggan because I do have eggs sometimes, but when people ask I usually intentionally call myself vegan, to save confusion (then later on try to explain), as people assume I will eat store eggs and egg products. (Despite explaining my reasoning) I wish there were a simple way to differentiate between homegrown exceptions and commercial produce... But it is what it is.

 

[Chicken poppy]

I'm technically veggan because I do have eggs sometimes, but when people ask I usually intentionally call myself vegan, to save confusion (then later on try to explain), as people assume I will eat store eggs and egg products. (Despite explaining my reasoning) I wish there were a simple way to differentiate between homegrown exceptions and commercial produce... But it is what it is.

Homegrown is always better! You know it comes from a great source.

 

[BelovedBirds]

Homegrown is always better! You know it comes from a great source.

Absolutely, I have a lot of respect for people on here who are more self sufficient and take good care of their animals

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Vegan is to not exploit animals in any form. It's a subjective position to take on things for sure. Case in point is vegans don't eat honey as that is exploiting the labor of bees yet they eat almonds in all forms, especially the milk, although that commodity is not available without the 1.5 million acres of almonds pollinated by artificial migrations of bees to California every Feb. that causes mass spread of pathogens and parasites back across the country.

If I was to proclaim being a vegan I could not in good faith artificially propagate a species for the function of humans eating their eggs or profiting from their labor. But I'm not vegan and am of the opinion that it's a very subjective position to take.

 

[BelovedBirds]

Vegan is to not exploit animals in any form. It's a subjective position to take on things for sure. Case in point is vegans don't eat honey as that is exploiting the labor of bees yet they eat almonds in all forms, especially the milk, although that commodity is not available without the 1.5 million acres of almonds pollinated by artificial migrations of bees to California every Feb. that causes mass spread of pathogens and parasites back across the country.

If I was to proclaim being a vegan I could not in good faith artificially propagate a species for the function of humans eating their eggs or profiting from their labor. But I'm not vegan and am of the opinion that it's a very subjective position to take.

Not every vegan eats almonds or almond milk, and you also seem to forget that many non vegans use almonds excessively. Not just us. In fact, since vegans are the minority, the majority of harm caused through almonds etc, is caused by non vegans. So this argument isn't very strong.

This goes for ordinary crops too. The majority of my products containing almonds, soy, etc, are farmed more carefully for the environment, and do not involve deforestation.

Most vegans don't use honey due to the environmental impact, as well as the treatment of the insects. Its a fairly easy thing to give up and makes a little positive difference.

An important point here which I feel you may have missed, is that veganism does not equal perfection. Vegans do not live cruelty free. Full stop. If we harvest crops, drive cars, use smart phones, we are causing harm to the environment.

A vegan's goal is to simply due the best they realistically can. If a person gives up meat from cruel industries, that's a plus. If people start using products not tested on animals, that's a plus. If they start sourcing things more carefully for the planet, that's a plus.

 

[Sussex19]

This thread seems to have gone a little of topic.
I'm sure the OP has had their questions answered by now.
While it is all very interesting, maybe starting a new thread would be the way to go?
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